Week of 10/13/2022

Last week, Joe Jr. took his kids to help with church group hurricane clean-up activities in Port Charlotte. While the damage is significant, we were impressed by the mobilization of emergency personnel, utility workers, and other key people. They have even restored access to Sanibel by vehicle. Limited to emergency and utility workers, they expect that residents will be able to drive to the island by October 21

Believe it or not, the world is getting better. This article, by Bjorn Lomborg, doesn’t deny the issues we face but provides perspective needed to make better policy choices. A location database company mapped 600 million IP addresses to the geographic center of the United States. It happened to be a farmhouse in Kansas. The residents have been harassed hundreds of times by ambulances, IRS agents, police, the FBI, and more. Joe Jr’s youngest child, Isaac, has devoted a lot of time lately to studying mushrooms. He’ll be interested to learn that trees use a network of fungi to communicate with each other. A tree can warn other trees of danger and even pump nutrients to other trees through their roots. Rolls Royce engineers made the car so quiet that drivers complained it was disorienting.

Ask the Joe®s (and Cale) have a new video, some thoughts on the current market. The key point comes at 4:30 in the video.

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